v13_0722 - GALLIENUS Antoninien
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 60.98 €
Estimate : 121.96 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 60.98 €
Estimate : 121.96 €
unsold lot
Type : Antoninien
Date: 263
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Avec son argenture complète. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief, mais frappé avec un coin mou
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : GALLIENVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Gallien à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A2).
Obverse translation : “Gallienus Augustus”, (Gallien auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE AETERNAE/ *|-.
Reverse description : Roma (Rome), casquée et drapée assise à gauche sur un bouclier, tenant une victoriola de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
Historical background
GALLIENUS
(07/253-08 or 09/268)
Augustus
Gallien, the son of Valérien I, was born in 218. He was immediately associated by his father with power and was in charge of the West, while his father went to the East. He won a brilliant victory over the Germans and consolidated the Rheno-Danubian limes. After the capture of Valérien in the East, Gallien must face on all fronts. The empire breaks up. Gaul, Spain, Germania and Brittany secede with Postum who first eliminated Salonin, the son of Gallien. It is the usurpation of Macrianus and Quietus in the East. Gallien will spend the last eight years of his life trying to put the pieces of this empire back together. Finally, he was assassinated in September 268 under the walls of Milan while besieging Aureolus, the master of the Cavalry, who had revolted.
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